klajsdhd wrote on Mar 10
th, 2014 at 3:57pm:
what in the fuck is this akamai shit?
sounds like some japanese porno fetish
seriously, what is it, what the fuck does it do?
I just go the firewall popup thing, and immediately closed the window and dl client to the updates.
Bro - where you been? Flav raised the flag on this weeks ago.
To bring you up to speed quickly, Akamai Netsession is a 3rd party download expediter. It can use P2P to do this, but Cordo has stated that this is disabled, so it currently is just a way for Turbine to take the load off their servers for the expected deluge of U21 downloads.
The main issue that the non-tinfoil hat brigade have is that it leaves a process running even after DDO is closed, which is sloppy coding and poor etiquette.
Now you are up to speed, you can jump onto the 384 threads here and in the mother forums and form your own view on whether this is:
(A) the end of civilisation as we know it; or
(B) a storm in an irrelevant teacup; or
(C) something in between these two extremes.
Good luck Padawan.